Barclay HENLEY

(1843-1914)

HENLEY, Barclay, (son of
Thomas Jefferson Henley), a Representative from California; born in
Charlestown, Clark County, Ind., March 17, 1843; moved with his
parents to San Francisco, Calif., in 1853; returned to Indiana in
1858; attended the common schools and Hanover (Ind.) College;
returned to San Francisco in 1861; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Santa Rosa, Calif.; member of
the State assembly in 1869 and 1870; district attorney of Sonoma
County in 1875 and 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); again
settled in San Francisco and continued the practice of law until
his death in that city on February 15, 1914; remains were cremated
and the ashes interred in the Santa Rosa Cemetery, Santa Rosa,
Calif.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present